Chief Open Source Officer Leaves Sun/Oracle

Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps has left Sun/Oracle, a
few months short of his 10th anniversary at the company.

At his blog, he writes that Sun has achieved some “amazing
things,” not least releasing some important software under free
licenses. However, he lists a few disappointments: “I’m sad that
Apache did not get the TCK license they requested. I’m sad that we
didn’t get the code for some of those projects permanently outside
the sun firewall.” And, above all, he is “sad that, despite the
success of the open source software businesses, it still wasn’t
enough to rescue Sun in the end.”